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Someone may have changed one of the less used copyright templates {{USA-C-notrenewed}} and it displays as garbage...
see here http://imslp.org/wiki/Wind_Quintet,_Op.95_(Foerster,_Josef_Bohuslav%29

Well it seems that placing the CR template after your note regarding the quality of the scan fixed the issue so I added a line break at the top of the template which matches the formatting of other templates and that seems to have solved the problem. Still, it looks better if the template is inserted on the page after the user's note.

Cypressdome

Thank you, but now the main problem is visible:
This was correct before and has changed about 2-3 weeks ago without an edit on the workpage, but someone edited the text of the copyright template to something false: This work is not on the US-server, and it is definitely public domain in Canada.

Ah, now I found the template page: This would have to be reverted - the changes by jdperi are plain wrong, I think.

I see what you mean. Prior to Jdeperi's changes there was no mention of copyright/PD status for life +50 or +70 countries. It appears that the template is only used on five pages currently although there's the potential for its greater use now that the volumes of the U.S. Catalog of Copyright Entries documenting the renewal records for works published between 1923 and 1949 are available on archive.org. Perhaps it would be best to leave the new formatting but remove the wording referencing non-US copyright status but I'd leave that up to the copyright reviewers to decide.

Cypressdome

cypressdome wrote:... although there's the potential for its greater use now that the volumes of the U.S. Catalog of Copyright Entries documenting the renewal records for works published between 1923 and 1949 are available on archive.org. ...

Wait, was this announced somewhere on the site? Is there an easy link to it?

jemiller226 wrote:

cypressdome wrote:... although there's the potential for its greater use now that the volumes of the U.S. Catalog of Copyright Entries documenting the renewal records for works published between 1923 and 1949 are available on archive.org. ...

Wait, was this announced somewhere on the site? Is there an easy link to it?

They're all linked to from one central page: http://imslp.org/wiki/Catalog_of_Copyright_Entries

Thanks, I didn't realize that existed. However, I meant the earlier ones that Cypressdome mentioned.

jemiller226 wrote:Thanks, I didn't realize that existed. However, I meant the earlier ones that Cypressdome mentioned.

I know...those are the ones They're renewal records created 28 years (more or less) after the original copyright was registered - so, for instance, the 1947 volume contains renewals for items registered in 1919 and 1920, and so forth up until the 1977 volume, which has entries for works from ~1949 (one year before copyright.gov kicks in at 1978->1950).

Is there a spot I can learn how to do this? It'd be a great help for the Sibley records that look like they should be under US copyright.

Hi jemiller226,

I'm no expert on copyright but I can give you some of the basics in searching for renewals using the volumes on archive.org. Works published in the U.S. between 1923 and 1963 were granted copyright protection for 28 years. To extend that protection copyright would have to be renewed in the 28th year. For works published after 1963 the renewal was automatic. So, the records that concern us are from around 1950 to 1992. Renewals filed after 1977 can be found by searching the U.S. Copyright Office's online catalog. Those filed prior to 1978 can be found in the volumes of the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) which we can access on archive.org.

CCE volumes were published every six months. From 1947 through 1956 renewal registrations were published separate from current registrations. Although each volume covers six months the files on archive.org have been combined into complete years. Each volume is alphabetized by the work's title. There is no name index. You can use archive.org's online reader to search for keywords but this isn't a foolproof method as OCR and the scanned images aren't perfect. If you're searching for "Brian" you might also want to try searching for "Br1an."

Starting with the 1957 volume renewal registrations were published in the same volume as current registrations but within a separate and of course much shorter section. These volumes also include a name index that combines both renewals and current registrations that cross reference the titles. Due to the length/file size of these volumes they have not been combined into complete years so both 6 month volumes have to be searched separately.

Beginning With the 1974 volumes each six month volume was split in two and included a name/title index at the beginning of the first book that cross reference the work's registration number. The listings of current and renewal records are by registration number.

It's best to search the volumes for the year prior to the 28th year, the 28th year, and the year after the 28th year (renewals filed late in the 28th year will show up in the volume for the following year). Additionally, you will want to check to see if a Notice of Intent to Enforce (NIE) was filed for a particular work. You can do this through the Copyright Office's online catalog http://www.copyright.gov/records/cohd.html and also check the files here http://www.copyright.gov/gatt.html.

I hope this was the type of information you were wanting.

Cypressdome

I think it probably is, yes. I'll know better when I have time to look at a few of the scores I skipped over.